| |  It was just a matter of time before Google started to leverage the massive base of Google accounts to connect everyone together. As usual, this new Google project is ambitious - instead of creating a new social network as a destination site, the new Friend Connect service takes the network to where the people already are - on blogs and websites. 8 Dec 2008 10:58
 With MTN bringing up its location lookup service, and Vodacom's already in place, it now means that media companies can deliver news targeted at a Personal Content Area based on the user's actual location. Whereas personalisation has mostly gone unused on the desktop web, I think people will be more likely to use a service that filters news based on their location. 16 Oct 2008 09:52
 There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting in your boardroom talking about simple concepts in an unnecessarily obfuscatory manner because their revenues are tied to your inability to understand what they're saying or the bills you're paying. 4 Aug 2008 09:45
 Time and time again I hear it said that the quality of journalism is deteriorating in South Africa. Frankly this is rubbish — what is declining is the quality of the audience. The source of this criticism is a society that has become a carcass of fat and bone with very little meat. 23 Nov 2007 17:42
Since early 2005 when I started working with Colin Daniels at the Rhodes New Media Lab, my thinking about the web has been saturated by the language, principles and ideals of Web 2.0 and specifically the sub-set of uses we call “social media”. So I had to laugh at the provocative piece written by Paul Jacobson for The Times the other week, called Social Media is Dead. 10 Sep 2007 08:06
 I have been thinking about this issue since I was at the New Media Lab at Rhodes and sometimes have been critical of the aggressive stance the citizen journalism pundits have taken towards the traditional media. I still hold the same position, that citizen journalism is over-hyped. 3 May 2007 16:34
| | Vincent Maher |  Vincent Maher is a social media strategist and the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom. Previously he was the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online and co-founder of Amatomu.com, the South African blog aggregator and analytics system. Before that he was director of the New Media Lab at the Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies, the MD of Digital Commerce and a multimedia director at VWV Interactive. He has worked in the online media industry since 1996, has presented papers at many international conferences and specialises in profitable innovation in emerging markets. Read more on his blog, follow him on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn. |
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